This really isn't news to many of us, but seeing it depicted in a comprehensive diagram does help shed light on the situation. http://www.businessinsider.com/americas-biggest-companies-are-intimately-interconnected-2015-7
Sometimes I'm surprised by just how inter-connected they all are. Now it's time for Walmart to buy them all out, and create the world's biggest monopoly!
These companies and owners are not telling the governments what they should do it is no longer a democracy.